Posted on 10/04/2008 10:09:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal grand jury is investigating whether San Francisco's policy of offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants violates U.S. laws against harboring people who are in the country illegally, city officials say.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera said his office has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent employees who might be questioned or asked for documents. He and Mayor Gavin Newsom said they would cooperate with the investigation.
San Francisco, like about 80 other U.S. cities and five states, has a law prohibiting the use of its funds to help enforce federal immigration law or to question individuals about their immigration status. The San Francisco ordinance, originally prompted by arrivals of refugees from Central American wars of the 1980s, specifies that police can report jailed felons to federal immigration authorities.
The Chronicle reported earlier this year that San Francisco juvenile justice authorities, interpreting the sanctuary policy, had flown some illegal immigrant youths to their home countries after Juvenile Court judges found they had committed felonies. ...
The policy of not referring juvenile offenders to federal immigration authorities had been in place for at least a decade. Newsom announced in July, after the first Chronicle articles appeared, that he had halted the flights in May and told city officials to start turning over youthful felons as well as adults to immigration officers for deportation.
Herrera's office was notified of the investigation several weeks ago when the grand jury issued a subpoena for documents. It's not clear whether prosecutors are seeking evidence of possible criminal violations by city officials. Herrera issued a prepared statement but did not answer questions about the investigation, and U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello - who has been a vocal critic of the city's policy - had no comment, said spokesman Joshua Eaton.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
as the gUbby might say
Probe Probe Probe!!!
Frog-March Newson and the S.F. City Council NOW!
“...A federal grand jury is investigating whether San Francisco’s policy of offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants violates U.S. laws against harboring people who are in the country illegally...”
DUH!
Are there any people left in SF who can the dot? Yeah ‘DOT’
yeah, a bunch of Clinton/Bush-appointee federal investigators are going to do anything about San Francisco and illegals. Right. They’ll get on that, right after they crack down on Acorn and voter fraud.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether San Francisco’s policy of offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants violates U.S. laws against harboring people who are in the country illegally, city officials say.
In a sane world it would take them no longer than an hour to come up with the correct opinion.
The Ninth Circus will make sure this goes nowhere.
Guilty.
At some point, we take all of this into our own hands. And sorry to all those out there who think that’s ‘too harsh’. Really tired of our side taking a slingshot to a machine-gun firefight.
Why is a grand jury needed to determine whether or not it's illegal for a city's officials to break a federal immigration law because they don't like it? Southern cities didn't like the civil rights act when it was enacted, but they weren't given the option of ignoring it's mandates without paying a penalty.
Anyone with a near-moron IQ who has enough sense to breath though his nose instead of his ears knows it's illegal to break laws and could have given the correct answer without costing the feds a ton of taxpayer money to empanel a grand jury. If they were to throw a few bleeding heart SF officials in a federal penitentiary for a few years this kind of nonsense would stop.
No Bailout for California. As Biden would say let’s just give them back to Canada.
(San Francisco, like about 80 other U.S. cities and five states, has a law prohibiting the use of its funds to help enforce federal immigration law or to question individuals about their immigration status. )
All I can say to these cities and States is if you do not want to be part of America then get the hell out.
As for the Federal Government how dare you give any of them any of our tax dollars........
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